JournoList: Proof of liberal media bias?

Leaked emails to and from progressive pundits suggest a concerted attempt to keep Rev. Jeremiah Wright out of the headlines

 Rev. Jeremiah Wright.
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Conservative bloggers already had their suspicions over "JournoList," the now-defunct mailing list set up by Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein as a means for journalists to privately debate current affairs and industry issues. But the blogosphere has been thrown into uproar after the leaking of "JournoList" emails from 2008 which appear to show a concerted attempt by liberal pundits to keep the Rev. Jeremiah Wright story out of the mainstream media during the 2008 presidential primaries. Journalists such as the Washington Independent's Spencer Ackerman and the Guardian's Michael Tomasky privately "plotted to fix the damage" done to Obama by revelation of his link to Wright, says Jonathan Strong at the Daily Caller, which broke the story. Are the leaked emails proof of the mainstream media's liberal bias? (Watch a Fox News report about JournoList's aims)

Only a handful of JournoList members approved of this "plot": Let's get the facts straight, says Jonathan Chait at The New Republic. The extent of this so-called plotting was an open letter, signed by only 10 percent of JournoList's members, condemning ABC News' treatment of Obama during one of the Democratic debates. An open letter is hardly "an example of secret message coordination," and "most people on Journolist had nothing to do with it." In fact, many of us felt uncomfortable about it. This "conspiratorial analysis" is entirely bogus.

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